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Sarah Stillman

Sarah Stillman

American journalist

Sarah Stillman is an American professor and journalist focusing on immigration policy[1] and the criminal justice system.[2] She won a 2012 George Polk Award,[3] and 2012 Hillman Prize.[4] In 2016, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.[5] She won a 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for her coverage of the felony murder charge in The New Yorker.[6]

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Life

Stillman graduated from Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C.,[7] and graduated from Yale University in 2006.[8] While in college, she founded and edited an interdisciplinary feminist journal, Manifesta,[9] and co-directed the Student Legal Action Movement, a group devoted to reforming the American prison system.[10]

Stillman was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University.[11] In 2009, she was embedded with the 116th Military Police Company.[12]

She teaches at New York University and Yale University.[13] She is also a staff writer for the New Yorker.[14]

Awards

In 2005, Stillman was awarded the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics.[9]

Stillman also won the 2012 National Magazine Award for Public Interest for her reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan on labor abuses and human trafficking on United States military bases.[15]

She is also the recipient of the Overseas Press Club's Joe and Laurie Dine Award for international human-rights reporting, the Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism, and the Michael Kelly Award.[16][17]

In 2016, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded Stillman a MacArthur fellowship.[18]

In 2024, as a staff writer of The New Yorker, she won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for her coverage of the felony murder charge.[6]

Selected bibliography

  • Stillman, Sarah (2000). Soul searching : a girl's guide to finding herself. Illustrated by Susan Gross. Hillsboro, Oregon: Beyond Words.
  • — (2001). Soul searching journal : a girl's guide to finding herself. New York: Simon Pulse/Beyond Words.
  • — (2012). Soul searching : a girl's guide to finding herself. Updated ed. Illustrated by Susan Gross. New York: Simon Pulse. ISBN 978-1582703039.
  • — (April 8, 2013). "Up in the air". Goings on About Town. Dept. of Hobbyists. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 8. pp. 24, 26. Retrieved 2015-12-21.

References

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    "AILA - AILA Presents Jonathan Blitzer and Sarah Stillman of The New Yorker with the 2018 Media Leadership Award". www.aila.org. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
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    McCormick, Andrew (2018-11-01). "Q&A: New Yorker's Sarah Stillman on Oklahoma women in prison and reporting amid trauma". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
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    "Throwaways: Recruited by Police & Thrown into Danger, Young Informants are Drug War's Latest Victims". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
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    "2012 Hillman Prize for Magazine Journalism". Hillman Foundation. 2012-04-14. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
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    "Sarah Stillman — MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2016-09-22.
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    LaForme, Ren (2024-05-06). "Here are the winners of the 2024 Pulitzer Prizes". Poynter. Retrieved 2024-05-06.
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    "T-G publisher part of 2-day D.C. symposium on 'The United States in the Age of Trump' - Times Gazette". www.timesgazette.com. 2018-02-09. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
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    "Sarah Stillman (PC '06): the search for truth as an Investigative Journalist". The Yale Globalist. 2012-02-09. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
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    "Yale Student Wins First Prize in Ethics Essay Contest". YaleNews. 2005-05-26. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
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    Hill, Tyler; Scheinman, Ted Scheinman (29 November 2005). "Four seniors win Marshall Scholarship". yaledailynews.com. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
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    "Scholar Names S-Z". www.marshallscholarship.org. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
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    "Sarah Stillman, Author at". Truthdig: Expert Reporting, Current News, Provocative Columnists. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
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    "NYU Journalism - Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute". NYU Journalism. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
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    Search : The New Yorker
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    "Sarah Stillman | English". english.yale.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
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    "Sarah Stillman – Brown Institute". Retrieved 2019-02-19.
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    "When Deportation is a Death Sentence: Sarah Stillman on Immigration and Criminal Justice". UCI Today. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
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    "Sarah Stillman - MacArthur Foundation". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2019-02-19.
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